What's New in JMeter 5.0

The new version of Apache JMeter is out with more features and more bug fixes. Let's see what changes and updates have been made in Apache JMeter 5.0.

Some of the new and noteworthy changes are.

Java version 8+ is required to run JMeter 5.0.

Now we can use Multipart/form-data for PUT and DELETE methods as well. It's now possible to send files along with the JSON body.

Now JMeter will automatically prefix the thread name with the load engine hostnames and port for distributed testing without any other configurations, which helps us make a count of threads correctly while reporting.